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According to Juliette Kayyem, a disaster management expert and international security professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, no specific triggering event needs to have happened to explain the Itaewon Halloween celebration tragedy. In her estimation, what she believed to be factors such as the large crowd, narrow streets and lack of public ...
The crowd crush Saturday in Itaewon, a popular nightlife district, has caused an outpouring of public sympathy toward the dead, mostly in their 20s and 30s, and demands for accountability for the ...
Like the ferry sinking, the Itaewon crush shone a spotlight on the South Korean government for its response to the tragedy. Critics accused it of being too slow to respond and of failing to take ...
Lee had failed to prepare for a mass Halloween gathering whose dangers he should have foreseen, thus creating the conditions for the Itaewon tragedy, the Seoul Western District Court said in a ...
“For me, Halloween and the Itaewon tragedy are (inextricably) linked,” she said. “It’s impossible to see reminders everywhere and not think about the death of friends that night.”
The Tragedy of Gate 12: Argentina: Buenos Aires: Fans were caught in a crush at the bottom of the stairs leaving through Gate 12 (Puerta 12 in Spanish) of El Monumental Stadium after a derby between River Plate and Boca Juniors. The exact cause for this crush is not certain, though rival fans might have been throwing burning paper, causing a panic.
At even higher densities, the pressure on each individual can cause them to be crushed or asphyxiated while still upright. [3] Such incidents are invariably the product of organizational failures, and most major crowd disasters could have been prevented by simple crowd management strategies. [4]
"In this aspect, the Itaewon tragedy has been deeply regrettable." (Reporting by Hyunsu Yim, Daewoung Kim and Heejung Jung; Additional Reporting by Jimin Jung; Editing by Josh Smith and Robert Birsel)